Do You Feel Safer?
Up in snow-bound New England, whose denizens long ago surrendered their legacy reputation for being stodgy, pro-freedom contrarians, a 31-year-old is languishing in a Boston hospital awaiting a heart transplant that likely won’t happen. Initially at the top of the transplant eligibility list, D.J. Ferguson is now ineligible at “Brigham and Women’s Hospital, which is a Harvard teaching facility” because he has not had a COVID vax and is refusing same. The hospital “said research had shown transplant recipients were at a much higher risk of dying from COVID compared to non-transplant patients … Our Mass General Brigham healthcare system requires several CDC-recommended vaccines, including the COVID-19 vaccine, and lifestyle behaviors for transplant candidates to create both the best chance for a successful operation and to optimize the patient’s survival after transplantation, given that their immune system is drastically suppressed. Patients are not active on the waitlist without this.” Standard sort of boilerplate we have become used to over the years regarding transplant candidates, and we have all pretty much accepted it given the desire among all protect the precious asset of a transplanted organ. That’s a reasonable stance…except…
It may be argued that the COVID “vaccine” is actually not, given that it does not prevent infection, transmission, or mutation. Moreover, it is of very questionable worth against the dominant Omicron-Omigod-Moronic variant. And why exactly is the CDC – the same corrupt organization that took it upon themselves to deliver edicts on housing rental policy – invoked in transplant cases, especially given how routinely inconsistent if not downright erroneous they have consistently been since early 2020? Yes, it could reduce the severity of symptoms if this patient is infected, and warrants honest discussion with his physicians, who may be correct in recommending the vax. But don’t we have to also ask what his odds are shot or no, if he does not receive the transplant? Is it really justifiable condemning him at best to a short life as an invalid simply because he refuses a non-vaccine that may or may not do him any good?
A little farther down the coast, a couple of Long Island nurses are in trouble, “accused of forging COVID-19 vaccination cards and pocketing more than $1.5 million from the scheme, prosecutors and police said.”
“Suffolk County District Attorney Raymond Tierney said DeVuono and Urraro handed out fake vaccination cards, charging $220 for adults and $85 for children. DeVuono, a nurse practitioner, and Urraro, a licensed practical nurse, entered the false information into the state’s immunization database, he said.” We can all appreciate that it is illegal to forge official government documents, and that these two nurses are crooked thieves.
“Suffolk County Police Commissioner Rodney Harrison added, ‘As nurses, these two individuals should understand the importance of legitimate vaccination cards as we all work together to protect public health.’” Ooooh, so vaccination cards are protecting public health, according to a cop who should know the law but is no more reputable an authority on public health than the phony doc Surgeon Admiral Murthy, or the dim and corrupt CDC chief Wallensky, or the negligently homicidal Fauci.
So we have a couple of instances of rule-breaking, one a dying patient making a medical choice, and the other two plain ‘ol crooks. But these cases have two important characteristics in common.
In both cases, they have run athwart the judgment of approved authorities, and shown disdain to the herd, which can never, ever be tolerated, and will be gravely punished.
And neither the patient being denied a transplant, nor the two crooked nurses pose an additional COVID risk to anyone.
These individuals had a choice. They made their choice, it’s a free country. Now they face the consequences of their choice. I’m not sure there’s too much more point in this article.
Yup, the patient is just plain stupid. Get the vaccine, get on the transplant list. It’s a simple decision. If he’s making the decision based upon liberal drool, so be it. Die. The Darwin principle at work. Frees up a heart to someone more deserving. Sounds caustic but there are a lot of prerequisites out in this world and vaccines are one of them. Since the swine flu vaccine debacle, the pharmaceutical concerns have worked harder than heck to make sure their vaccines don’t harm anyone and help them to avoid a potentially devastating disease.
When a new vaccine comes out, I try to get as close as possible to first in line.
Well, that’s just the fact that when I was in medical school in the early 80’s, a lecturing virologist hammered us with all the precautions the pharmaceutical companies were taking so there wasn’t a repeat of what happened with the swine flu vaccine.
I was glad that I as a cancer survivor (prostate yeah I know a weak excuse) and my autistic spectrum son were able to get closer to the head of the line. Being in a rural area helps a lot too as far as isolation is concerned. Kurt (retired M.D.)
“…frees up a heart to someone more deserving…”
Thank you for proving my point.
The point is that none of this is about health, but about compliance. My hope is that someone will explain how vaccine cards keep others healthy, particularly when said vaccine doesn’t prevent infection or transmission. Care to try?
Careful. Don’t go thinking outside the lines.
One recalls that the constitutional medical rights of the incarcerated free them from compulsory post-transplant anti-rejection treatment after receiving a heart transplant. Death post-transplant . “Free-range” citizens take note.
Sorry. Correct link. Perhaps freedom is slavery.
I don’t think framing either one of these examples as intended to make us feel safer is accurate. I am OK with requiring transplant candidates to get vaccines since the organs should go to the people with the highest chance of long term success.
In the second case, as you say the nurses are crooks. it’s reasonable to be against government vaccine mandates and also against people behaving criminally. There is no reason to present the two topics together.
The reason is to ridicule the moral certitude of the herd … and those who accept it.
WRONG,WRONG,WRONG!!!
The Mrna vaccines do not work,do not protect you,May Damage your immune system,may make you more
susceptible to later variants,may accelerate youdeveloping Cancer,risk blood clots.. MyoCarditis is FOREVER.
.You develop permanent lifelong damage.. Plus risk of myocarditis in young males 12 to 50 yrs old goes up after each injection.. Giving these shots to kids is child abuse,pediatric MalPractice, and will be charged as such..Look at the studies from Israel, South Africa, Denmark,Sweden,Great Britain,India, Japan..Wake up folks.
No I am Not Vaxxed.No I will not be Vaxxed.Yes I will defend myself ,violently if Needed to prevent anyone
from giving me that.. Breaks first law of Medicine.. Do No Harm.. A whole lot of Harm was,is now ,being done.
NO GUTS,NO GLORY.. Glory is fleeting soon forgotten, Personal SATISFACTION that you stood up for what is
Right,is Forever,even if only in Your Soul….
Idiot….you’re further damaging the already precarious view of PA’s on this site. Crawl back into your hole….
This is a detour but in support of the fact that the latest variants destroy all the health information and policies. My daughter and I had a trip to Galapagos. We are both triply vaccinated, wearing masks and doing precautions. With the recent outbreak. I called the tour operator and said are you canceling this tour since you require multiple tests to be negative before being allowed on the trip. Although I have trip insurance that they recommended, it’s specifically says pandemic and epidemics excluded and no one will answer my questions. Despite 2 hours on hold. They said their usual ambiguous answers. I said with this latest variant a lot of people are going to be testing positive and what are we going to do.
Sure enough. Last night my daughter did two tests and was positive despite being triply, vaccinated and masking. Of course they wanted to deflect it to the trip insurance which never answers their phone and I know the policy will never pay out. Luckily after persuasion they let me move the trip.
Of course the price went up 30%. And I have to pay the difference. I’m out the tour, insurance and other costs. Thanks Joe. I really can’t complain as people have sacrificed much more during this epidemic but it does show you the so-called science is ambiguous and people making policies are lagging behind actual results. It makes no sense to have to be tested negative to get back in the United States why we have an open border. Likewise while the virus is spreading everywhere. My case is going to cause an epidemic by returning. Same as trying to go there. Either make it fully refundable if you’re going to run travel or don’t run travel
As you point it, when allocating a precious scare resource like a heart, it makes sense to protect it. That is to say the selection process should make sure that recipients will take good care of the organ. To achieve maximum utility, recipients should be screened for conditions and behaviors that will cause decrease longevity of the heart.
I also agree with you, that the CDC and other government experts have lost credibility.
I oppose most covid vaccine mandates. Nonetheless , my own logical analysis leads to the conclusion that vaccinated people should get a preference for organ transplants. True that there are no randomized controlled trials to prove that vaccinated recipients live longer than unvaccinated. But, an honest examination of all available information would support that conclusion.
Vaccine mandates for transplant recipients is one of the few times I would favor a mandate.
Thank you for your truth and honesty! University of Virginia has denied someone a kidney transplant has been on the waitlist for three years. They were called and told that they were put on the inactive list because they won’t get the vaccine aka basically not participating in this mass experiment.
Hospitals are no longer useful to the public. They’re owned by the government. I can’t imagine having a life-threatening health issue that couldn’t be reversed through Exercise and real food. Plan Demic goals apparently are being met.
Kathy, you said you “can’t imagine having a life-threatening health issue that couldn’t be reversed through Exercise and real food”. Which “life-threatening issues” are those that you have seen “reversed through Exercise and real food”?